Month: December 2007
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-15
@sallyinnorfolk The USB thingies are called jumpdrives, pen drives, flash drive, or just USB storage! # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-14
thinking its going to be tough to go back to the cold of the I’m from lovely heat of Dubai # thinking its going to be tough to go back to the cold of the I’m from lovely heat of Dubai # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-13
now using beehive to twitters from costa using berts network next door # that’s beejive.com not beehive # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Transferring contacts into your iPhone
So you have bought your new unlocked iPhone from the local Indian market trader in Dubai for 2900 Drm ( 386 UKP) and now you want to transfer your old SIM card contacts to the iPhone contact book. Is there a neat utility (like on the Treo’s) to do this? Nope! you need the waitress…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-12
Off to Emirates Mall whilst Isla at nursery.. # good luck to sally on her way to fame at radio Norfolk 🙂 # She proceeded to go into one of her screaming fits. Nick and I ejected and went to berts cafe # Wonder when Sally is on Radio Norfolk – currently a gardening programme…
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UK Drivers look the other way…..
Whilst on my walk from Nicks offices in Media City. I came across a filling station:- That is at the exchange rate today:- 6.25 AED = 0.834319 GBP United Arab Emirates Dirhams United Kingdom Pounds 1 AED = 0.133491 GBP 1 GBP = 7.49114 AED or about 83 pence per gallon, Nick says, don’t forget…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-10
Another day of gorgeous sunshine and warmth – Dubai is good in December 🙂 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Dubai past and present
Fred Wilson posted these two images of Dubai taken 13 years apart on his tumblr page (linked to the Edibek blog), which contains loads of interesting Dubai facts. I went out this afternoon in the area next to Nicks apartment and you can see the furious rate of building from the number of cranes in…
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Turning off the candles.
Quentin took this fine picture of Kings Parade in Cambridge. Which had me thinking about the current state of street lighting on Kings Parade. Especially after Cathy and I visited the Shire Hall a few years ago to complain about the new columns. A bit of history first, In 1957 the new Richardson lights were…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-08
Just back from Old Dubai now for a swim in evening sunshine and heat 🙂 # Powered by Twitter Tools.